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The Common Room / Re: bankruptcy records
« on: Tuesday 22 September 09 20:24 BST (UK)  »
A PM is a private or personal message. You can send a message to anyone on the forum using the private messaging system. Whatever you write is only sent to that person and not published on the forum, hence it's 'private'.
Hope that helps  ;)

P.S. It would help if I told you how to do it wouldn't it  ;D

At the side of each forum message you can see a few little icons. The one that looks like a scroll is for private messages. Hover your mouse over the icons and you'll see what I mean  :)

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The Common Room / Re: bankruptcy records
« on: Monday 21 September 09 22:31 BST (UK)  »
You could try contacting the Official Receiver's office in the relevant area. They won't do a search for you, but they should be able to point you in the right direction to obtain information. The London Gazette is a very good place to start though as all bankruptcies and liquidation of companies are published in that.
Good luck  :)

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The Common Room / Re: My tree is only a bush!
« on: Monday 21 September 09 22:24 BST (UK)  »
No family tree is ever complete, Muttly, so don't give up  ;)

Your family must be somewhere out there, so as others have said, post some info in the appropriate place on the forum, and soon someone will be able to give you a few more twigs to add to your tree. Before you know it you'll have a whole forest  ;D
I have a John Smith (his son was also John Smith).....in my tree....imagine how hard he was to find....but I kept at it and I now know quite a bit about him. You have to be like a terrier with a bone....worry it but don't let it go  ;D
I also got loads of help from another forum related to the main city I'm interested in, so that may be another avenue for you to look at.  Also have you joined a local Family History Society? They are very helpful, and if you don't live near the one that's most relevant to your family, you can still join and then look at the forum and post on there.  There's a lot of help out there once you start to ask questions  :)
Good Luck  :)


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The Lighter Side / Re: "Cold turkey"
« on: Saturday 12 September 09 21:38 BST (UK)  »
I feel your excitement Ambers  ;D 
It's amazing what so many families did all those years ago. Imagine trekking to America....no jet planes then, so just a very long sea journey ahead of them ???  Imagine all the children running around the decks, and mothers tearing their hair out trying to keep them under control and not to lose any overboard  :o  The conditions were probably very primitive, and then to find themselves in a strange country, far away from all that was familiar in UK. Probably no idea what they were coming to, and no idea whether or not they would be successful there.  What a terrible time they must have had, and I only hope your family managed to stay close and that they did succeed in what the set out to do  :)
Thanks for sharing your news  :)

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The Lighter Side / Re: "Cold turkey"
« on: Saturday 12 September 09 20:26 BST (UK)  »
That's wonderful Ambers  :) To have made a contact like that is really great, but fancy 30 of them emigrating all those years ago...how very brave of them  ;) At least there's plenty of room in USA for big families ;D

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The Lighter Side / Re: "Cold turkey"
« on: Monday 07 September 09 23:02 BST (UK)  »
Everything comes to those who wait  ;D 
Hope you have a lot of success now  ;)

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The Common Room / Re: inquest reports
« on: Wednesday 26 August 09 18:52 BST (UK)  »
That's a really sad story lisat  :'( 
I wonder if she was so upset about having to give her baby up for adoption, she just couldn't deal with it any more?  She was certainly very young, and that type of trauma would have caused terrible distress.
I do hope you have some success with your search, and wish you both all the best.

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The Common Room / Re: inquest reports
« on: Wednesday 26 August 09 10:17 BST (UK)  »
If you don't get anywhere with the local cemetary, try the Local Council of the area she lived, you never know what records they may have, but they might be able to point you in the right direction at least  ;)
I was very sad when I discovered there was no headstone but when I thought it through I realised there was probably no money for it. Grandpa died in 1942 and my sister in 1946, therefore during and just after WWII, so headstones were probably not at the top of any wish list.
I placed some flowers on the grass, said a little prayer and had a chat to them both, which sounds mad, I know, but it helped me to know I had found them and they are not forgotten by the remaining family.
I do hope you find what you need, and maybe visit the grave at some point.

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The Common Room / Re: inquest reports
« on: Tuesday 25 August 09 21:53 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: lisat on Tuesday 25 August 09 14:14 BST (UK)

 If I wrote to the Cemeteries dept. of the local borough, do you think they would tell me if she is buried there?
Thanks once again to all of you who have answered.

I contacted Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, and was able to get full details of where my grandpa and little sister are buried. They kindly wrote to me and sent a photo of the cemetery and a diagram of the section they are in, together with the reference number. All that made it fairly easy to find the plot when I visited, but sadly there is no headstone or even a marker stone, just a plot of grass  :'( 
Good luck  :)

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